Bariumis achemical element;it hassymbolBaandatomic number56. It is the fifth element in group 2 and is a soft, silveryalkaline earth metal.Because of its high chemicalreactivity,barium is never found in nature as a free element.

Barium,56Ba
Barium
Pronunciation/ˈbɛəriəm/(BAIR-ee-əm)
Appearancesilvery gray; with a pale yellow tint[1]
Standard atomic weightAr°(Ba)
Barium in theperiodic table
Hydrogen Helium
Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon
Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon
Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton
Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon
Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon
Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson
Sr

Ba

Ra
caesiumbariumlanthanum
Atomic number(Z)56
Groupgroup 2 (alkaline earth metals)
Periodperiod 6
Blocks-block
Electron configuration[Xe] 6s2
Electrons per shell2, 8, 18, 18, 8, 2
Physical properties
PhaseatSTPsolid
Melting point1000K​(727 °C, ​1341 °F)
Boiling point2118 K ​(1845 °C, ​3353 °F)
Density(at 20° C)3.594 g/cm3[4]
when liquid (atm.p.)3.338 g/cm3
Heat of fusion7.12kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization142 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity28.07 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure
P(Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
atT(K) 911 1038 1185 1388 1686 2170
Atomic properties
Oxidation states+1,+2(a stronglybasicoxide)
ElectronegativityPauling scale: 0.89
Ionization energies
  • 1st: 502.9 kJ/mol
  • 2nd: 965.2 kJ/mol
  • 3rd: 3600 kJ/mol
Atomic radiusempirical: 222pm
Covalent radius215±11 pm
Van der Waals radius268 pm
Color lines in a spectral range
Spectral linesof barium
Other properties
Natural occurrenceprimordial
Crystal structurebody-centered cubic(bcc) (cI2)
Lattice constant
Body-centered cubic crystal structure for barium
a= 502.5 pm (at 20 °C)[4]
Thermal expansion20.47×10−6/K (at 20 °C)[4]
Thermal conductivity18.4 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity332 nΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic orderingparamagnetic[5]
Molar magnetic susceptibility+20.6×10−6cm3/mol[6]
Young's modulus13 GPa
Shear modulus4.9 GPa
Bulk modulus9.6 GPa
Speed of soundthin rod1620 m/s (at 20 °C)
Mohs hardness1.25
CAS Number7440-39-3
History
DiscoveryCarl Wilhelm Scheele(1772)
First isolationHumphry Davy(1808)
Isotopes of barium
Main isotopes[7] Decay
abun­dance half-life(t1/2) mode pro­duct
130Ba 0.11% (0.5–2.7)×1021y εε 130Xe
132Ba 0.1% stable
133Ba synth 10.51 y ε 133Cs
134Ba 2.42% stable
135Ba 6.59% stable
136Ba 7.85% stable
137Ba 11.2% stable
138Ba 71.7% stable
Category: Barium
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The most common minerals of barium arebarite(barium sulfate,BaSO4) andwitherite(barium carbonate,BaCO3). The namebariumoriginates from the alchemical derivative "baryta", fromGreekβαρὺς(barys), meaning 'heavy'.Baricis the adjectival form of barium. Barium was identified as a new element in 1772, but not reduced to a metal until 1808 with the advent ofelectrolysis.

Barium has few industrial applications. Historically, it was used as agetterforvacuum tubesand in oxide form as the emissive coating onindirectly heated cathodes.It is a component ofYBCO(high-temperature superconductors) and electroceramics, and is added to steel and cast iron to reduce the size of carbon grains within the microstructure. Barium compounds are added to fireworks to impart a green color.Barium sulfateis used as an insoluble additive tooil welldrilling fluid.In a purer form it is used as X-rayradiocontrast agentsfor imaging the human gastrointestinal tract. Water-soluble barium compounds are poisonous and have been used asrodenticides.

Characteristics

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Physical properties

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Oxidized barium

Barium is a soft, silvery-white metal, with a slight golden shade when ultrapure.[8]: 2 The silvery-white color of barium metal rapidly vanishes uponoxidationin air yielding a dark gray layer containing theoxide.Barium has a mediumspecific weightand high electrical conductivity. Because barium is difficult to purify, many of its properties have not been accurately determined.[8]: 2 

At room temperature and pressure, barium metal adopts abody-centered cubicstructure, with a barium–barium distance of 503picometers,expanding with heating at a rate of approximately 1.8×10−5/°C.[8]: 2 It is a soft metal with aMohs hardnessof 1.25.[8]: 2 Its melting temperature of 1,000 K (730 °C; 1,340 °F)[9]: 4–43 is intermediate between those of the lighter strontium (1,050 K or 780 °C or 1,430 °F)[9]: 4–86 and heavier radium (973 K or 700 °C or 1,292 °F);[9]: 4–78 however, its boiling point of 2,170 K (1,900 °C; 3,450 °F) exceeds that of strontium (1,655 K or 1,382 °C or 2,519 °F).[9]: 4–86 The density (3.62 g/cm3)[9]: 4–43 is again intermediate between those of strontium (2.36 g/cm3)[9]: 4–86 and radium (≈5 g/cm3).[9]: 4–78 

Chemical reactivity

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Barium is chemically similar to magnesium, calcium, and strontium, but more reactive. Its compounds are almost invariably found in the +2 oxidation state. As expected for a highly electropositive metal, barium’s reaction withchalcogensis highlyexothermic(release energy). Barium reacts with atmospheric oxygen in air at room temperature. For this reason, metallic barium is often stored under oil or in an inert atmosphere.[8]: 2 Reactions with othernonmetals,such as carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, and hydrogen, proceed upon heating.[8]: 2–3 Reactions with water and alcohols are also exothermic and release hydrogen gas:[8]: 3 

Ba + 2 ROH → Ba(OR)2+ H2↑ (R is an alkyl group or a hydrogen atom)

Barium reacts withammoniato form the electride [Ba(NH3)6](e-)2,which near room temperature gives the amide Ba(NH2)2.[10]

The metal is readily attacked by acids.Sulfuric acidis a notable exception becausepassivationstops the reaction by forming the insolublebarium sulfateon the surface.[11]Barium combines with several other metals, includingaluminium,zinc,lead,andtin,formingintermetallic phasesand alloys.[12]

Compounds

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Selected alkaline earth and zinc salts densities, g/cm3
O2−
S2−
F
Cl
SO2−
4
CO2−
3
O2−
2
H
Ca2+
[9]: 4–48–50 
3.34 2.59 3.18 2.15 2.96 2.83 2.9 1.7
Sr2+
[9]: 4–86–88 
5.1 3.7 4.24 3.05 3.96 3.5 4.78 3.26
Ba2+
[9]: 4–43–45 
5.72 4.3 4.89 3.89 4.49 4.29 4.96 4.16
Zn2+
[9]: 4–95–96 
5.6 4.09 4.95 2.09 3.54 4.4 1.57

Barium salts are typically white when solid and colorless when dissolved.[13]They are denser than thestrontiumorcalciumanalogs, except for thehalides(see table;zincis given for comparison).

Barium hydroxide( "baryta" ) was known to alchemists, who produced it by heating barium carbonate. Unlike calcium hydroxide, it absorbs very little CO2in aqueous solutions and is therefore insensitive to atmospheric fluctuations. This property is used in calibrating pH equipment.

Barium compounds burn with a green to pale greenflame,which is an efficient test to detect a barium compound. The color results fromspectral linesat 455.4, 493.4, 553.6, and 611.1 nm.[8]: 3 

Organobarium compoundsare a growing field of knowledge: recently discovered are dialkylbariums and alkylhalobariums.[8]: 3 

Isotopes

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Barium found in the Earth's crust is a mixture of sevenprimordial nuclides,barium-130, 132, and 134 through 138.[14]Barium-130 undergoes very slowradioactive decaytoxenon-130 by doublebeta plus decay,with a half-life of (0.5–2.7)×1021years (about 1011times the age of the universe). Its abundance is ≈0.1% that of natural barium.[14]Theoretically, barium-132 can similarly undergo double beta decay to xenon-132; this decay has not been detected.[15]The radioactivity of these isotopes is so weak that they pose no danger to life.

Of the stable isotopes, barium-138 composes 71.7% of all barium; other isotopes have decreasing abundance with decreasingmass number.[14]

In total, barium has 40 known isotopes, ranging in mass between 114 and 153. The most stableartificial radioisotopeis barium-133 with a half-life of approximately 10.51 years. Five other isotopes have half-lives longer than a day.[15]Barium also has 10meta states,of which barium-133m1 is the most stable with a half-life of about 39 hours.[15]

History

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Sir Humphry Davy,who first isolated barium metal

Alchemists in the early Middle Ages knew about some barium minerals. Smooth pebble-like stones of mineral baryte were found in volcanic rock nearBologna,Italy,and so were called "Bologna stones". Alchemists were attracted to them because after exposure to light they would glow for years.[16]The phosphorescent properties of baryte heated with organics were described by V. Casciorolus in 1602.[8]: 5 

Carl Scheeledetermined that baryte contained a new element in 1772, but could not isolate barium, onlybarium oxide.Johan Gottlieb Gahnalso isolatedbarium oxidetwo years later in similar studies. Oxidized barium was at first called "barote" byGuyton de Morveau,a name that was changed byAntoine Lavoisiertobaryte(in French) orbaryta(in Latin). Also in the 18th century, English mineralogistWilliam Witheringnoted a heavy mineral in the lead mines ofCumberland,now known to bewitherite.Barium was first isolated by electrolysis of molten barium salts in 1808 by SirHumphry DavyinEngland.[17]Davy, by analogy withcalcium,named "barium" after baryta, with the "-ium" ending signifying a metallic element.[16]Robert BunsenandAugustus Matthiessenobtained pure barium by electrolysis of a molten mixture ofbarium chlorideandammonium chloride.[18][19]

The production of pure oxygen in theBrin processwas a large-scale application of barium peroxide in the 1880s, before it was replaced by electrolysis andfractional distillationof liquefied air in the early 1900s. In this process barium oxide reacts at 500–600 °C (932–1,112 °F) with air to form barium peroxide, which decomposes above 700 °C (1,292 °F) by releasing oxygen:[20][21]

2 BaO + O2⇌ 2 BaO2

Barium sulfate was first applied as aradiocontrastagent inX-ray imagingof the digestive system in 1908.[22]

Occurrence and production

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The abundance of barium is 0.0425% in the Earth's crust and 13 μg/L in sea water. The primary commercial source of barium isbaryte(also called barytes or heavy spar), a barium sulfate mineral.[8]: 5 with deposits in many parts of the world. Another commercial source, far less important than baryte, iswitherite,barium carbonate. The main deposits are located in Britain, Romania, and the former USSR.[8]: 5 

Barite, left to right: appearance, graph showing trends in production over time, and the map showing shares of the most important producer countries in 2010.

The baryte reserves are estimated between 0.7 and 2 billiontonnes.The maximum production, 8.3 million tonnes, was produced in 1981, but only 7–8% was used for barium metal or compounds.[8]: 5 Baryte production has risen since the second half of the 1990s from 5.6 million tonnes in 1996 to 7.6 in 2005 and 7.8 in 2011. China accounts for more than 50% of this output, followed by India (14% in 2011), Morocco (8.3%), US (8.2%), Turkey (2.5%), Iran and Kazakhstan (2.6% each).[23]

The mined ore is washed, crushed, classified, and separated from quartz. If the quartz penetrates too deeply into the ore, or the iron, zinc, or lead content is abnormally high, thenfroth flotationis used. The product is a 98% pure baryte (by mass); the purity should be no less than 95%, with a minimal content of iron andsilicon dioxide.[8]: 7 It is then reduced by carbon tobarium sulfide:[8]: 6 

BaSO4+ 2 C → BaS + 2 CO2

The water-soluble barium sulfide is the starting point for other compounds: treating BaS with oxygen produces the sulfate, with nitric acid the nitrate, with aqueous carbon dioxide the carbonate, and so on.[8]: 6 The nitrate can be thermally decomposed to yield the oxide.[8]: 6 Barium metal is produced by reduction withaluminiumat 1,100 °C (2,010 °F). Theintermetallic compoundBaAl4is produced first:[8]: 3 

3 BaO + 14 Al → 3 BaAl4+ Al2O3

BaAl4is an intermediate reacted with barium oxide to produce the metal. Note that not all barium is reduced.[8]: 3 

8 BaO + BaAl4→ Ba↓ + 7 BaAl2O4

The remaining barium oxide reacts with the formed aluminium oxide:[8]: 3 

BaO + Al2O3→ BaAl2O4

and the overall reaction is[8]: 3 

4 BaO + 2 Al → 3 Ba↓ + BaAl2O4

Barium vapor is condensed and packed into molds in an atmosphere of argon.[8]: 3 This method is used commercially, yielding ultrapure barium.[8]: 3 Commonly sold barium is about 99% pure, with main impurities being strontium and calcium (up to 0.8% and 0.25%) and other contaminants contributing less than 0.1%.[8]: 4 

A similar reaction with silicon at 1,200 °C (2,190 °F) yields barium andbarium metasilicate.[8]: 3 Electrolysis is not used because barium readily dissolves in molten halides and the product is rather impure.[8]: 3 

Benitoite crystals on natrolite. The mineral is named for theSan Benito RiverinSan Benito Countywhere it was first found.

Gemstone

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The barium mineral,benitoite(barium titanium silicate), occurs as a very rare blue fluorescent gemstone, and is the official state gem ofCalifornia.

Barium in seawater

Barium exists in seawater as the Ba2+ion with an average oceanic concentration of 109 nmol/kg.[24]Barium also exists in the ocean as BaSO4,or barite.[25]Barium has a nutrient-like profile[26]with a residence time of 10,000 years.[24]

Barium shows a relatively consistent concentration in upper ocean seawater, excepting regions of high river inputs and regions with strong upwelling.[27]There is little depletion of barium concentrations in the upper ocean for an ion with a nutrient-like profile, thus lateral mixing is important.[27]Barium isotopic values show basin-scale balances instead of local or short-term processes.[27]

Applications

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Metal and alloys

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Barium, as a metal or when alloyed with aluminium, is used to remove unwanted gases (gettering) from vacuum tubes, such as TV picture tubes.[8]: 4 Barium is suitable for this purpose because of its lowvapor pressureand reactivity towards oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water; it can even partly remove noble gases by dissolving them in the crystal lattice. This application is gradually disappearing due to the rising popularity of the tubeless LCD, LED, and plasma sets.[8]: 4 

Other uses of elemental barium are minor and include an additive tosilumin(aluminium–silicon alloys) that refines their structure, as well as[8]: 4 

Barium sulfate and baryte

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Amoebiasisas seen in a radiograph of a barium-filled colon

Barium sulfate(the mineral baryte, BaSO4) is important to the petroleum industry as adrilling fluidinoil and gas wells.[9]: 4–5 The precipitate of the compound (called "blanc fixe", from the French for "permanent white" ) is used in paints and varnishes; as a filler inringing ink,plastics, and rubbers; as a paper coating pigment; and innanoparticles,to improve physical properties of some polymers, such as epoxies.[8]: 9 

Barium sulfate has a low toxicity and relatively high density of ca. 4.5 g/cm3(and thus opacity to X-rays). For this reason it is used as aradiocontrastagent inX-ray imagingof the digestive system ( "barium meals"and"barium enemas").[9]: 4–5 Lithopone,apigmentthat contains barium sulfate andzinc sulfide,is a permanent white with good covering power that does not darken when exposed to sulfides.[28]

Other barium compounds

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Green barium fireworks

Other compounds of barium find only niche applications, limited by the toxicity of Ba2+ions (barium carbonate is arat poison), which is not a problem for the insoluble BaSO4.

Palaeoceanography

The lateral mixing of barium is caused by water mass mixing and ocean circulation.[34]Global ocean circulation reveals a strong correlation between dissolved barium and silicic acid.[34]The large-scale ocean circulation combined with remineralization of barium show a similar correlation between dissolved barium and ocean alkalinity.[34]

Dissolved barium's correlation with silicic acid can be seen both vertically and spatially.[35]Particulate barium shows a strong correlation withparticulate organic carbonor POC.[35]Barium is becoming more popular to be used a base for palaeoceanographic proxies.[35]With both dissolved and particulate barium's links with silicic acid and POC, it can be used to determine historical variations in the biological pump, carbon cycle, and global climate.[35]

The barium particulate barite (BaSO4), as one of many proxies, can be used to provide a host of historical information on processes in different oceanic settings (water column, sediments, and hydrothermal sites).[25]In each setting there are differences in isotopic and elemental composition of the barite particulate.[25]Barite in the water column, known as marine or pelagic barite, reveals information on seawater chemistry variation over time.[25]Barite in sediments, known as diagenetic or cold seeps barite, gives information about sedimentary redox processes.[25]Barite formed via hydrothermal activity at hydrothermal vents, known as hydrothermal barite, reveals alterations in the condition of the earth's crust around those vents.[25]

Toxicity

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Barium
Hazards
GHSlabelling:[36]
Danger
H228,H260,H301,H314
P210,P231+P232,P260,P280,P303+P361+P353,P304+P340+P310,P305+P351+P338
NFPA 704(fire diamond)
Health 3: Short exposure could cause serious temporary or residual injury. E.g. chlorine gasFlammability 3: Liquids and solids that can be ignited under almost all ambient temperature conditions. Flash point between 23 and 38 °C (73 and 100 °F). E.g. gasolineInstability 1: Normally stable, but can become unstable at elevated temperatures and pressures. E.g. calciumSpecial hazard W: Reacts with water in an unusual or dangerous manner. E.g. sodium, sulfuric acid
3
3
1

Soluble barium compounds haveLD50near 10 mg/kg (oral rats). Symptoms include "convulsions... paralysis of the peripheral nerve system... severe inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract".[8]: 18 The insoluble sulfate is nontoxic and is not classified as a dangerous goods in transport regulations.

Little is known about the long term effects of Barium exposure.[37]The USEPAconsiders it unlikely that barium is carcinogenic when consumed orally. Inhaled dust containing insoluble barium compounds can accumulate in the lungs, causing abenigncondition calledbaritosis.[38]The insoluble sulfate is nontoxic and is not classified as a dangerous goods in transport regulations.[8]: 9 

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